If Cash can stink it up in Boston this summer, and maybe suck really bad for someone else next year, he has a chance to retire as the second-worst batter of all-time!

Bergen is in a class by himself. He played 11 seasons and hit higher than .190 only once. I wish we had game logs for him, because he must have had some hellacious slumps. (Actually, his entire career was a slump.)

Anyway, Cash is a serious black hole at the bottom of the lineup. A lineup of 9 guys with Cash's career stats (facing average pitching and fielding) would score only 2.2 runs per game and have a winning percentage of .178 (a 29-133 record).

The 1916 Philadelphia A's won the fewest games of any post-1900 team (36-117, .235); they would have finished 11.5 games ahead of the Nine Cashes. But even Cash can't match the infamous 1899 Cleveland Spiders (20-134, .130).

Here's what I don't get. There's a lot of catchers out there in the minors and wherever (skid row). Is crappy Cash really that much better than a guy OK at A or AA level? With both top AAA back-ups on the DL they must have a catcher right now...

Theo seems to have a fondness for the crap we have known and rejected over the unknown (with a documented record of something).

Mark Wagner had surgery on his left hamate bone around May 1 and started a GCL rehab assignment on July 2.

Dusty Brown, left thumb strain on June 23

Now at Paw: Juan Apodaca (Portland) and Dan Butler (Greenville)

The FO does not want to start the arb clock on those guys (or Luis Esposito (AA)). None of them are likely to do much better than Cash, and with Brown on rehab and Victor not out for long (we hope), they will likely ride it out. Maybe Cash sells his soul and gets a few hits.